Edward Teller Quotes

The beauty of science hugely outranks the charms of superstition.

Science when well-digested is nothing but good sense and reason.

Science, unlike theology, never leads to insanity.

The man of science is a poor philosopher.

The universe is governed by science. But science tells us that we can't solve the equations, directly in the abstract.

My background is basically scientific math. My Dad was a physicist, so I have it in my blood somewhere. Scientific method is very important to me. I think anything that contradicts it is probably not true.

Mathematics takes us into the region of absolute necessity, to which not only the actual word, but every possible word, must conform.

Strictly speaking, the idea of a scientific poem is probably as nonsensical as that of a poetic science.

We are certainly not to relinquish the evidence of experiments for the sake of dreams and vain fictions of our own devising; nor are we to recede from the analogy of Nature, which is wont to be simple and always consonant to itself.

The good thing about science is that it is true whether or not you believe in it.

The whole history of science has been the gradual realization that events do not happen in an arbitrary manner, but that they reflect a certain underlying order, which may or may not be divinely inspired

What is mathematics? It is only a systematic effort of solving puzzles posed by nature.

I'm a firm believer in science.

Throughout history, every mystery ever solved has turned out to be NOT magic.

If there is any consistent enemy of science, it is not religion, but irrationalism.

There is a fundamental difference between religion, which is based on authority, [and] science, which is based on observation and reason. Science will win because it works.

I believe in things that have proof.

In every department of physical science there is only so much science, properly so-called, as there is mathematics.

Without science, everything is a miracle.

Science is the only true guide in life.

Mathematics, the non-empirical science par excellence . . . the science of sciences, delivering the key to those laws of nature and the universe which are concealed by appearances.

Natural science sharpens the discrimination. There is no false logic in nature. All its properties are permanent: the acids and metals never lie; their yea is yea, their nay, nay. They are newly discovered but not new.

All science requires mathematics.

God forbid that Truth should be confined to Mathematical Demonstration!

Science is better than sympathy, if only it is science.